Wash-stand



(No Model.) W. SCOTT.

WASH STAND.

No; 270,701. Patented Jan. 16,1883.

N. PETERS. Pm mm n mr. Washington, a a

receptacle for slop-jars and other kindred UNITED STATES WILLIAM O. N.SCOTT, OF

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

WASH-STAN D.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,701, dated January16, 1883.

Application filed November 21, 1882; (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM O. N. Soorr, a citizen of the United States,residing at Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented a certain newand useful Improvement in Wash-Stands, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a chamber-vessels, wherebythe disfigurement of the walls, carpets, floors, and furniture of theapartment is avoided and an unsightly chamber article convenientlyremoved from view. In one form of my invention a washstand has one ofits end panels hinged at the back of the stand, so as to be capable ofbeing swung back and forth as a door, and this panel is provided on itsinner side with a bracket or shelf, upon which the vessel to be inclosedis placed, so that when such vessel is not in use it can be closed inthe stand, and thus concealed. I secure this panel or door to a rodhinged to the wash-stand and provide it with a handle, whereby it may bepartly rotated, and thus move the door, and in order to facilitate theclosing of the door I secure it to the stand slightly out of thevertical, so that it will act partly by gravity.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the severalfigures of which like partsare similarly designated, Figure 1 is aperspective view with the door closed. Fig. 2 is a similar viewwith thedoor open, showing a slop-jar in place on the shelf; and Fig. 3 is aperspective view of my rod-hinge.

The wash-stand a may be of any approved construction.- I utilize one ofits end panels, b, by making of it a door, swinging open from hinges atthe back of the stand.

The hinge I employ consists of a rod, 0, having fixed hinge-leaves d, towhich the door is secured, and having other hinge-leaves, e, secured tothe wash-stand, in which leaves e the rod turns to open and close the.door b. The rod 0 is provided with a fixed or removable handle, f, bywhich it and its attached door are operated. This handle preferablystands parallel with the side of the wash-stand and somewhat above itstop when the door is closed, so as to avoid contact with articles uponsuch stand, and in opening the door such handle turns outward from thestand, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, respectively; but I do not limitthe invention to this arrangement of the handle, nor to this position ofthe door. Neither do I confine my invention to-this location of thedoor, as it is obvious such door may be at the front of the stand,although such location will not be so convenient as the side.

The door is provided with a shelf, 9, pro jecting from its inner facehorizontally, and a space is left within the wash-stand large enough toreceive this shelf and whatever it can holdfor example, a slop-jar, asshown. This shelf is braced by a bracket, h, beneath the same.

The jar or other vessel is retained upon the shelf against accidentaldisplacementby means of a molding, 'i, projectingas a vertical flangeabove the edge of the shelf, or by a wire loop, k, hinged to the insideof the door and adapted to be thrown around the neck or body of thevessel, and so arranged as to be easily removed therefrom to permit theremoval of the vessel. The shelf so made possesses the merit of allowingthe easy placing and removal of the vessel without lifting to anyconsiderable height, and the emptying of its contents into a pail bytilting it on the shelf; and, further, the shelf will receive a vesselof any shape.

The loop or bail 7t and flange 2' will preferably both be employed, theone to hold the vessel at its top and the other at its bottom againstaccidental displacement.

In using my invention the door is swungstand, and the stand thus havethe appearan cc of an ordinary stand, while the unsightly vessel isremoved from view and the splashing of the walls, &c., avoided.

I do not limit my invention to a door hung out of the vertical.

My invention is applicable to wash-stands already made as well as thosespecially constructed to receive it.

Too

to receive and support a slop-jar, and a hingingrod, c,'substantially asshown and described, provided with a handle at its upper end to swingsaid door to move the jar-shelf in and out such stand, as and for thepurpose set forth.

2. In a wash'-stand, an end panel fixed to the rod 0, which is hinged tothe stand, and provided with a handle, whereby the door may be movedback and forth upon its hinge, combined with a vessel-receiving shelfattached to such hinged panel, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

3. The combination of the rod 0, having fixed hinge leaves (I andhinge-leaves e, in which said rod may turn, and an operatinghandle, f,with a panel or door, I), attached tosaid fixed hinge-leaves, andprovided with a 20 shelf, substantially as shown and described.

4. In a wash-stand, adoor and the hingingrod 0, constructedsubstantially as described, provided with a handle to move said doorback and forth upon its hinge, combined with 25 a vessel-receiving shelfattached to such door, and a loop, substantially as specified, to holdthe vessel upon the shelf against accidental displacement, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 30 hand this 21st day ofNovember, A. D. 1882.

WILLIAM O. N. SCOTT.

